Comments on: Katrina: Who’s Responsible For New Orleans?

By: Nykola.com

Nykola.com — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 19:00:17 +0000

Civil Responsibility…

This will be my second third to last post on Hurricane Katrina. I’m not beating this horse any longer. On the rare occasion of a free Saturday, I’ve spent much of today pondering the events of this week, considering what……

By: Mooiness! » New Orleans: levels of responsibility

Mooiness! » New Orleans: levels of responsibility — Sat, 11 Mar 2006 07:29:36 +0000

[...] More in the article here.And speaking of all this, shouldn’t FEMA employees be working or rescuing or whatever instead of browsing blogs? [...]

By: Randy Webb

Randy Webb — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 20:53:31 +0000

Finally someone has the “YOU KNOW WHAT ” to publish the truth. The Mayor is responsible and should be punished to the full extent of the law. He could have prevented many a needless deaths, instead, hid behind a microphone in some luxury office whinning and blaming someone else. Trying to confuse others so they would blame the Bush Administration. As far as corruption is concerned, Mempis Tennesseeians, wake up and smell the roses. Your money is being sucked right out of your pockets and being put into Electee’s pockets as we speak. PROFESSIONAL POLITICIANS

By: Patriot

Patriot — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 19:12:18 +0000

Not in a disaster, according to Homeland Security. Nice try, though.

By: AST

AST — Wed, 14 Sep 2005 18:15:22 +0000

This will sound racist, but it is blacks and journalists who brought it up. They say that if FEMA wasn’t there as soon as Katrina passed with food, water, supplies, etc. if proves that George Bush doesn’t care about black people. I hope black people aren’t really that dumb and that it’s due to demagoguery.

They don’t seem to understand that it isn’t the role of the national government, or shouldn’t be, to take over the functions of every state and local government. The federal government should be the last resort, not the first.

These complaints suggest that they come from people who have been cared for so long that they have forgotten how to take care of themselves. It is astonishing to me that people could live with the constant danger of this catastrophe for year after year, with officials knowing how vulnerable the city was, and not have thought about what to do beyond “Tell everybody to get out.”

If they had given the matter a little thought they would have deployed all buses in the city and environs as soon as it became clear that Katrina would affect them. They would have had floodproofed shelters throughout the city ready to receive people, with boats for ferrying people out of the city in case of a flood. Those shelters would have included stores of emergency food, water and supplies in flood proof bunkers along with generators and radios so they could communicate with emergency responders with And they would have conducted drills at least once per year before hurricane season. By doing all this, people would learn to associate hurricanes with getting out of danger, instead of hunkering down and waiting or getting drunk.

By: Nate

Nate — Sat, 10 Sep 2005 04:28:28 +0000

I just finished watching Dateline on tv. Mayor Nagin said that he made mistakes, like everyone else. He said what he should have done differently was “to scream louder”. Days after, with his city evacuated, his only plan- still was to scream louder. What a complete display of incompetance!

By: Jack

Jack — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 17:18:54 +0000

Looking for someone to blame? Then blame yourself. We all seem to forget that we
are the government of the United States, NOT BUSH OR ANYONE ELSE. We, the stupid people who let men and women get
elected into public office who are corrupt, self-serving and so rich that they couldn’t
identify with the common man if they were paid to do such. And most get elected with less than 30% of the vote of the total population of the United States. Also, we need to blame ourselves for the never endingf taxes and money we pay to our governments, local, state and federal. After all, we gave them all the blank checks
and did not tell them who to make it out to or for how much.
Wake up people, we did this, no one else. SO REALIZE WHAT IS WRONG, AND THEN CHANGE IT!!!!!!

By: Nancy

Nancy — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 14:38:29 +0000

Yes, local govt. screwed up. But one cannot discuss the mess without throwing the Ffeds in there. I have a feeling that when that meeting finally comes, heads are gonna roll in a thousand different directions.

By: GUYK

GUYK — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 13:28:53 +0000

I just keep e-mailing the picture of the flooded school buses to every MSM that I have a e-mail list for. I urge everyone to do the same. It is a damn shame that the liberals and the Jessie Jackson racists have started a cover up for the mayor even before the bodies are counted. But the only way to defeat this kind of propaganda is to prove they are liars and the picture is the proof. They can deny, spin and twist on the MSM news but they cannot deny the pictures of the flooded buses. And the flood of e-mail is letting them know that the public knows they are liars.

By: JB

JB — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 12:42:20 +0000

If more people would see the truth in what has happened in New Orleans, and stop trying to blame the President for everything that happens to this country, maybe just maybe things could get better. What has happen to our leaders? They definately are leading anymore. They are playing CYA because of all the politically correct ness and the minority factions screaming that we are putting them down. What has happen to good ol’ COMMON SENCE? Doesn’t anyone have any, anymore? The things that have happened in NO could have been prevented had someone just used some common sense and a little bit of balls and not worried whose feeling they were going to hurt.